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Technology Stocks : Loral Space & Communications -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Valueman who wrote (4889)	11/20/1998 11:38:00 AM
From: Valueman	Respond to of 10852

Congratulations to the Space Station folks for getting the Zarya module(the first piece of the ISS) launched aboard a Proton early this morning. Only 44 more pieces to go! In the releases about Skybridge's FCC approval yesterday was mention of Northpoint Technology. Interesting company that plans to offer local stations to DBS subscribers using terrestrial Ku-band transmission. They want to offer internet connections as well. Check them out at: northpointtechnology.com If the FCC would allow it, I think a better solution would be for someone like our own Loral to make a deal with ASkyB/MCI and use the two sats on the ground at SS/L, or the L-Star sats, or all four for that matter, along with the 110 slot and offer local channels to all Echostar and DirecTV customers. Share the revenues and solve the problem. Charlie Ergen of Echostar has said that there are 10 reasons why people pass on satellite TV and the first 9 are lack of local channels. If the FCC went along with it, this would solve that problem. Obviously, the plan would eat up transponders in a big way, but isn't that what we like to see? The 110 slot could service both providers of DBS with little technical difficulty. It makes more sense than Echostar's current two dish set-up.